To be honest, if it weren't for the help of martial artists with various special abilities and the blessed land available, Li Xian would not have been able to reach the current level by spending five or six times as much time and materials.

Therefore, on the whole, the money is still well spent, but if you are not careful, you should not be on the verge of bankruptcy.

In fact, there have been clues to this matter for a long time, Zhao Hujiang and Zhang Sicheng and others have long reminded Li Xian that the consumption of materials is too fast, and he must save some money, but at that time, the technology research and development was at a critical moment, and if he took a step back, he might lose all his efforts, and Li Xian himself did the taste of technology, and entered a state similar to going crazy, ignoring this kind of persuasion, and only then did he wake up to the extent that he could not solve it now.

According to the speed of consuming more than 5.5 million taels of money in seven months, if Li Xian still maintains the previous speed of material investment and insists on technology development and capacity upgrading, it will be difficult for the remaining funds to support even a month.

Even if you don't mention these things, buying all kinds of raw materials, machines and books here and there is a lot of investment.

Knowing that he was the initiator of the current financial predicament of the Mixed Yuan Sect, Li Xian's cheekiness also felt a little embarrassed and embarrassed.

"Well, it was my problem to spend too much money in the previous paragraph, but fortunately, the technology research and development and improvement have come to an end, and the money will not be so fierce in the future.

During this time, some less important experiments and production were stopped first, and at least the salaries of the army and workers were paid on time.

In addition, I went to Guangzhou to see if I could borrow money from Wang Jiuxuan to get through the current difficulties first. Li Xian said.

"That's a good idea, but the prices in Guangzhou are now expensive, and Sanyuanguan is still investing money in various industries, I'm afraid it's a little difficult to borrow money. Zhao Hujiang and others are not very optimistic about the prospect of borrowing money.

Li Xian didn't take this to heart, and after leaving the blessed land, he hurried to Guangzhou.

Wang Jiuxuan is now the prefect of Guangzhou, and he directly occupies the original Guangzhou prefect's yamen office, which is in the most prosperous and central place in the whole city, which is easy to find.

took the carriage to the vicinity of the mansion, but found that hundreds of people gathered in front of the mansion, as if they were protesting something, and when they saw Li Xian coming with a group of people, they actually had the intention of surrounding.

Fortunately, the other party also has people who understand, as soon as they saw Li Xian's clothing and banner, they understood that it was the commander of the Huaxia Army himself who was present, and he was afraid that there would be unforeseen disasters when he easily surrounded him, so he restrained himself from impacting the carriage.

Li Xian felt strange and inquired, only to find out that this was a matter of some scholars and citizens in Guangzhou gathering together to protest against the bullying of the people by the Huaxia Army, and it sounded like they were still dead.

If it was normal, Li Xian would definitely stay to learn more about it, but at this time, there were more important things to worry about, so Li Xian had to suppress his curiosity, go directly to the mansion, and go to Wang Jiuxuan to talk.

Li Xian went to the vicinity of Wang Jiuxuan's office, but heard someone shouting loudly.

"What the hell is going on, how can we have no money on our accounts?

Who embezzled the money of our three-element view, we must find out, and I will punish him well. ”

This voice is full of energy, and the ears of the people who can be heard from dozens of meters away are buzzing, and the person who speaks is superb and strong, who is not Xuan Zheng, the sect master of the Three Yuan Temple.

Li Xian felt bad in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward, crossed the remaining distance, and entered the room where Wang Jiuxuan worked.

When he entered the room, he found that Wang Jiuxuan was smiling bitterly and explaining something to his master, but Xuan Zheng looked like he had just swallowed a fly.

Seeing Li Xian coming in, Xuan Zheng looked like he suddenly came to life, and said happily: "Li Xian, you came just in time, I was about to go to you."

My side has recently had a capital turnover, can you Mixed Yuan Sect borrow a million taels to spend first. ”

Li Xian couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I came to you two to borrow money, why are you also short of funds?"

At this moment, Xuan Zheng and Wang Jiuxuan's faces suddenly became very exciting.

"I don't have any money because I invest all my money in technology research and development, but how can you have no money in Sanyuanguan?

It stands to reason that your three-yuan view does not cost much, and you are guarding the huge Guangzhou, this money should be more and more, and it shouldn't be gone so soon. Li Xian briefly introduced the situation on his side, and then asked curiously.

Xuan Zheng has been doing various experiments under Li Xian during this time, and he understands how expensive these experiments are, and knows that Li Xian is not perfunctory, but indeed has no money.

As for why Sanyuanguan also has no money, this is a little embarrassing, Xuan Zheng gave Wang Jiuxuan a look, and Wang Jiuxuan could only come out to explain.

"Our problem here is precisely because we are guarding Guangzhou, otherwise we wouldn't spend money so quickly, and there is still a little left. Wang Jiuxuan sighed and explained.

It turned out that the family did not know that rice and salt were expensive, and after the occupation of Guangzhou, Li Xian was not interested in Guangzhou, so Wang Jiuxuan naturally took over the governance of Guangzhou, and in return he handed over Foshan and other peripheral towns to the mixed yuan sect to operate.

However, after Wang Jiuxuan took charge of Guangzhou, the first problem he encountered was the continuous rise in the prices of daily necessities such as grain and cloth, which seriously affected the lives of Guangzhou citizens.

Thinking about it, since the Huaxia army occupied Guangzhou, the Qing court immediately cut off the grain trade in Guangzhou, and the original grain ships from Wuzhou to Guangzhou also stopped, and Guangzhou's grain supply could only rely on the warehouse reserves of the original government and merchants, plus some smuggling from nearby areas.

Guangzhou has a population of more than 2 million people, and the total annual consumption of grain is about 10 million quintals, of which about 5 million quintals depend on the production of peasants near Guangzhou, and the other 5 million quintals depend on imports from Wuzhou and other places.

After the Qing court cut off grain imports, the grain imported from other places was reduced by more than half at once, but relying on smuggling could replenish about 2 million quintals, and there was a lot of shortfall all of a sudden.

Fortunately, Guangzhou, as the capital of Guangdong Province, has always gathered the province's tax grain, and had previously stockpiled much more grain than usual for the war, so that the Huaxia Army seized more than 2 million quintals of grain from the official treasury after occupying Guangzhou.

According to such reserves, the Huaxia Army has adopted various methods to stabilize grain prices, which can support it for at least one year, and if it is lucky, it may be able to hold out for two years, and this is also the confidence of Li Xian and others who know that there is a shortage of grain in Guangzhou, and they do not particularly care about it, thinking about improving the industrial level first, and then slowly solving the food crisis.

It's just that Wang Jiuxuan is in charge of such a big city for the first time, and he can't help but be too concerned, and he is a little anxious when he sees the rising grain prices in Guangzhou, and he has taken out the grain in the warehouse many times to sell it to stabilize the grain price, so as not to let the people of Guangzhou point to his backbone and sell.

Originally, this was nothing, it was an underestimation of human nature, and an underestimation of the speculative nature of businessmen.